REAL DICTATOR OF GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2942, 30 November 1916, Page 5

REAL DICTATOR OF GERMANY

VON HINDENBURG OUTSHINES THE KAISER Auatrolian-New Zealand Cable Association. (Rec. November 29, 10.50 p.m.; London, November 29. A wireless message from • Zurich states that Baron Kopp, one of the Baltic nobles, who, although a .Russian subject, had thrown in his lot with Germany, has arrived from Berlin. Ho declares that von Hindenburg, figuratively speaking, .has dethroned the Kaiser. It is an absolute fact, he says, that von Hindenburg is Dictator of Germany, and outshines tho Kaiser as.the sun does the moon. . Tho Kaiser is a minor planet revolving around von Hindenburg. The latter ordered the proclamation of the Kingdom of Poland in order to get more men, and also the now mass levy. _ He interferes with the administration in everything, and docs what he likes with every department. The Germans look upon von Hindenburg as a god, snd have almost forgotten the Kaiser's existence as a factor in the country's government. "All this is very galling to tho Kaiser, who has always been supremely envious of every prominent German. Iti s worse than the bitternoss of defeat for the Kaiser to see how von Hindonburg has grasped the sceptre of absolute power. The Kaiser not merely desists von Hindenbrg, but loathes the very mention of his name, but he is full of fear for his throno and for himself, and submits to him."